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Hamas: Samhadana appointment remains

Palestinian government rejects calls to cancel appointment of most wanted rocket chief Jamal Samhadana to general supervisor of interior ministry, defends establishment of new security body

Hamas rejected on Saturday calls to dismantle its new special security body, and turned down a demand by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to cancel the appointment of Jamal Abu Samhadana as general supervisor of the interior minister.

 

Palestinian Interior Minister Said Siam, a leading Hamas member, said on Saturday night in Gaza that he did not understand the storm that erupted over the decision to set up the new body, which he said was taken under his authority. Siam added that the new body was designed to combat the security anarchy in the Palestinian Authority in the context of what interior ministry staff members call "the intifada against the security anarchy."

 

Siam expressed his sorrow over the clashes that broke out in Gaza and Rafah between Fatah and Hamas activists, in which over 30 people were injured.

 

He said that "these clashes should be stopped, only the Israeli occupation benefits from them." Hamas said that comments by Khaled Mashaal were not aimed at describing Fatah members as traitors or to be slanderous, and also called on restrained to be shown.

 

'Exposing the truth'

 

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zahari said that Mashaal's comments were aimed at exposing the truth before the Palestinian people and were meant to hurt anyone. "But guarding Palestinian unity does not mean hiding the truth," he said.

 

In Gaza mediation efforts continued Saturday night between Fatah and Hamas with the aim of ending the clashes following Mashaal's comments, which included the use of rocks, Molotov cocktails, stun grenades, and the exchanges of blows.

 

Muhammad Dahlan, a member of the Palestinian legislative council and a senior Fatah member, called on Fatah activists to be restrained and not to be dragged to provocations and "Mashaal's poisonous incitement, despite the fact that he described our activists and leaders as traitors."

 


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